I had nine children today, the older kids are staying upstairs to hear the sermon, I do miss their participation and help but they are getting older and need to be upstairs.
 
We are working on the fruits of the holy spirit.  Today our focus was on joy.  We had a great discussion in our round table manner of what brings us joy which is many things from puppies to friends and then we learned we have joy because Jesus is in our heart and our joy is not really based on happiness with things on earth.  Its a beautiful concept and a bit hard to understand but these kids are on the track right now.
 
Our second part was a fun game of "Christian Walk" with follow the leader, Mary being the leader of the chicken walk, bear walk and frog hop, none of these being the Christian walk.  Followed with a talk around the table while munching on cookies about what the Christian walk for all of us really means based on the fruits of the holy spirit.  Our next question was, who would you like to tell about Jesus and our answers were varied with Mary being one of the chosen people to hear the message, pretty cool.  By the way, with a knee and hip problem I did discover when I got home I didn't have a leg to stand on.  So much for my funny walks, not so funny later but the kids loved it.
 
The kids had a work sheet to color words expressing joy and then one last round at the table with "Rejoice in the Lord always."  Joseph who loves to sing, sang it for us with all of us following suit and we hope they will be allowed to sing it at the end of Bobbie's lesson.
"I will say it again:  Rejoice."